🇮🇩Cost of Travel in Indonesia (2026): Daily Budgets for 3 Cities
Seventeen thousand islands wearing every shade of green — Bali's temple-topped cliffs and rice terraces, and Java's royal city with the world's largest Buddhist monument up the road.
Daily budgets in Indonesia
The cheapest city in Indonesia is Yogyakarta, at $30–60 a day mid-range per person; the priciest is Bali, at $50–100 — about 67% more for the same style of trip.
| City | Budget / day | Mid-range / day | Comfort / day | Cheap meal | Mid-range hotel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yogyakarta | $20–35 | $30–60 | $55–110 | $1–2.50 | $25–55 |
| Ubud | $25–50 | $40–85 | $70–150 | $1.50–3 | $35–80 |
| Bali | $30–60 | $50–100 | $90–180 | $1.50–3 | $40–90 |
Per person in US dollars, flights not included. Mid-range is each guide's researched figure and includes a mid-range room; budget and comfort scale it by 0.6 and 1.8, so treat those as rough. How we work these out.
Plan a trip across Indonesia
Set the nights you'd spend in each city. Per person, before flights; each night counts one day of that city's daily budget.
Cities
🇮🇩Bali
IndonesiaTemples on sea cliffs, surf that suits beginners, and a Hindu island culture that turns every morning into a small ceremony. This guide covers the southern beach belt — Kuta to Uluwatu; inland Ubud has its own guide.
🇮🇩Ubud
IndonesiaBali's green heart: rice terraces stepping down the valleys, a temple every hundred meters, monkeys with a crime syndicate, and more yoga mats per capita than anywhere on earth.
🇮🇩Yogyakarta
IndonesiaJava's cultural capital — a living sultanate with the world's largest Buddhist monument at sunrise distance, batik in every alley, and street food that costs pocket change. 'Jogja' to everyone who's been.
Head to head
Two cities side by side — costs, best months and what you'd do in each.